Means for piling up tierces



(No Model.)

J. C. BOYLE. MEANS FOR FILING UP TIERGES, BARRELS, &c.

No. 458,515. Patented Aug. 25, 1891;

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JAMES C. ZOYLE, OF Oh'IAllA, NEBRASKA.

MEANS FOR PILING UP TIERCES, BARRELS, 85C- SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 458,515, dated August 25, 1891.

Application filed April 16, 1891.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES C. BOYLE, of Omaha, in the county of Douglasand State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Improvement inMeans for Piling Up 'lierces, Barrels, and other Like Packages, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to means for piling up tierces, barrels, andother like packages one upon the other in any number of tiers, such asmeat-tierces, pork-barrels, oil-barrels, sugar-barrels, and otherbarrels, casks, or tierces containing or designed to contain differentarticles or materials, including apples,

sirups, potatoes, and so forth. The means ordinarily employed for thispurpose are a series of continuous plain planks, generally from eight totwelve feet long, placed in succession upon one tier after the other inthe pile, for the purpose of rolling the tierces or barrels on or overthem to their places between or in proper position relatively to thetierces or barrels in the tier beneath. \Vhen such planks are used,after one tierce or barrel is thrown up and rolled to its place, it isnecessary,in order to throw up and roll another or succeeding tierce orbarrel to its place in the same tier, to wait till the first tierce orbarrel is off the plank, so as to admit of the plank being pulled back asufficient distance to make room for the succeeding tierce or barrel todrop into its place. This is not only a laborious, but slow and costlymethod of piling up tierces or barrels and the like in tiers, theworkmen standing idle much of the time, inasmuch as every time a tierceor barrel is thrown up the plank has to be pulled back, and this cannotbe done till the tieree or barrel is rolled off the plank.

The object of my invention is to obviate these defects and to save bothtime, labor, and money.

The invention consists of a sectionally-constructed plank or series ofskids, being fractional portions of a plank of novel construction,substantially as hereinafter described, and more particularly pointedout in the claims, the same to be used in the place of a continuousplank for the purpose and in the manner set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying Serial No. 389,159. (Nomodel.

drawings, forming a part of this speci fiCEt tlOll, in which similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal view 111 elevation of my invention asapplied to the placing of a tierce on a lower tier of t erces, and Fig.2 is a similar View with my invention as applied or adapted to placetierces upon a first and second series of tiers. lhg. 5 is a plan viewof one of the series of skids or fractional portions of my improvedpilingplank; Fig. i, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 5,an end viewthereof, and Fig. 6 atransverse vertical section thereof.

A A indicates a number of tierces designed to be thrown up and placedone upon or over the other in any number of tiers, the t erces in eachone of the upper tiers being designed to rest on and between two of thetierces 1n the tier immediately beneath. To do this I use a series ofskids B or fractional portions of abarrel-rollin g plank,which areconstructed to adapt themselves to sit down between each two adjacenttierces or barrels in the same tier. These skids are each constructed ofan upper board I) and of a leg-piece d, shaped to fit down in betweeneach two adjacent tierces in the same tier, said leg or leg-piece beingof tapering curvilinear construction on its sides to hug or lie close tothe tierces and keepthe top or board I) of the skid at its proper heightand level. These leg-pieces may be secured. to the board I) by a centralcountersunk bolt (2, secured by nuts below and end rivets or screws f,also bolts'g may be passed crosswise through the board I) at its ends tostiffen 1t and prevent it from breaking under the rough usage to whichthe skid is exposed.

In using the skids-say for piling up tierces in tiers-a number of theseskids B are first arranged on the lower tier in line and positionbetween the tierces A A, lying side by side one against the other,except in the case of the two last tierces, which require no skidbet-ween them, as shown at the left in Fig. 1. To build. up a secondtier of tierces, first one tierce is rolled along over these skids onthe tier below, that form a continuous plankway, as it were, till suchupper tierce drops into its place between the two last tierces in thelower tier, and so on in succession for each add itional tierce in thesecond tier, always remov- IOO ing the last skid in the row after atierce has been rolled off it to take its place between adacent tiercesin the tier below, and these sklds as they are separately removed arethen placed in position between each two of the tlerces in the secondtier in succession, (see Flg. 2,) so as to be out of the way andform aplankway, if needed, for building up a third t er of tierces, and so onfor any number of tiers. This transposing of the skids prepares eachtier in succession, without losing time, for the reception of thetierces in the succeeding tier-as, for instance, the third tier willhave its skids in position by the time the second tier of tierces iscompleted. The piece of plank or top board I) of each skid is or may behollowed out or chamfered 06 at its sides, as shown ate, to adapt theskids to lie in a crosswise position to that shown, for piling upbarrels as the tierces are piled, but in a different position. Theseskids may be made of suitable material, size, and strength to adapt themto the particular packages they are designed to be used for in piling upin tiers, as described.

Having thus described myinvention,Ic1aim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent 1. The means herein described for piling up tierces,barrels, and other like packages in tiers, which consists of a series ofskids form- 30 ing fractional portions of a plank to be used in rollingsaid packages to their places, said skids being composedof an upperboard or top and an attached central leg-piece of tapering constructionon its sides, as set forth. 3 5

2. The within-described skid, composed of an upper board or top hollowedout or chamfered 01f at its sides and having an attached centralleg-piece of tapering construction on its sides, in a plane at rightangles to the 0 chamfered-off sides of the upper board or top,essentially as specified. w I

3. A skid having its upper board or top braced by cross-bolts at itsends and united with its leg-piece by a countersunk bolt and '45 endscrews or rivets, substantially as herein described.

JAMES C. BOYLE.

\Vitnesses:

H. L. KE NEDY, CLAUDE U. CUNNINGHAM.

